Paint and varnish remover.



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OTTO E. .TEN'ELL, OI" CHICAGI), ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE GHADELDID CHEMICAL CQMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION 0F WEST VIRGINTA.

-PATINT AND VABNISH REMOVER.

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Be it known that 1, 02cm E. ENELL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Paint and Varnish Removers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to paint and varnish removers and relates especially to compositions comprising volatile solvents 'with which preferably some waxy bodies and caustic material have been incorporated.

Alcoholic bodies, such as the strict alcohols, also allied ketonic and similar sub stances allow of the incorporation of caustic alkali, such as potash or the like, which l esides tending to decrease their inflannnabih ity gives them different solvent powers for some paints and varnishes. The mere mechanical agitation of alcoholic bodies with the proper alkali material is usually sutiicient to effect the incorporation of the desired percent-age; commercial wood alcohol, for instance, by agitation in a vessel containing a quantity of fused caustic potash in small pieces absorbs several per cent. of the alkali in a short time. A still further reduction of inflammability may be e'ifected by using the desired proportion of carbon tetrachlorid. As the waxy body in such removers, paraflin or preferably ceresin wax may be used and it is desirable also. to use a considerable proportion of red oil or crude oleic acid, a saponifiable material which forms a desirable thickener as does also the heavy paraflin oil known as mineral glycerin or slab oil. Both of these oily thickening agents act to give smooth and uniform consistency to the remover and prevent strati- Specification of Letters Patent.

fication or separation of the various ingredients after they have been combined prefercoholic bodies mentioned usually include a suitable Wax solvent such as benzol or its homologues, or other wax solvents such as benzin, turpentine, and so forth.

Illustrative removers of this character may be prepared according to the following formula: wood alcohol, 20 parts, carbon tetrachlorid, 2 parts, caustic potash, about one part, benzol 25 parts, ceresin, 2 parts, oleic acid, 2 parts. Another good remover may comprise commercial acetone from the distillation of wood, 25 parts, caustic potash, about one part, benzol, 20 parts, turpentine, 10 parts, ceresin, 3 parts.

This invention has been described inconnection with a number of illustrative "ingredients, formulas,.proportions and processes,, to the details of which disclosure the inventionis not, of course, to be limited.

. -What is claimed is 1. The finish remover formed by the in corporation of approximately twenty parts of wood alcohol, two parts carbon-tetrachlorid, one part fused caustic potash, twenty-five parts benzol, two parts ceresin and two parts oleic acid.

2. The finish remover formed by the incorporation of approximately alcohol twenty parts, wax-dissolving finish solvents twenty seven parts, caustic potash one part, wax two parts and oleic acid two I arts.

@TTO ENELL.

Witnesses:

HARRY L. DUNCAN, Jnssin B. KAY.

Fatented Feb. 28, 1911. Application filed February 1, 1907. Serial No. 355,335. 

